You can create a second sheet in the Google forms spreadsheet this creates, that imports data from the first. The second sheet can have pretty graphs, and you can lock view and edit privileges on the primary sheet to just yourself.
You got our data without telling us that we won't get to see the results (which are shown at the end in almost all the polls posted here), you need to do this.
This whole thing leaves a bad taste in my mouth. It reeks of self-promotion. Self-submitted survey on the front-page of HN? How could that have possibly happened without a voting ring? The user doesn't get to see results, and the email for the submitter is "moneyplease@swigme.com"? This is Hacker News, not "Shameless Manipulative Sociopath News".
When did HN become such an easy target for blatant manipulation? If I was a moderator I'd bury this story, and ban MediaSquirrel. It's one of those times I wish I could downvote stories, at least.
I wanted to make them public from the get go, but didn't want to reveal the emails and phone numbers of the other survey respondents. Just figured out a solution thanks to HN.
Surveys don't ask for personally identifying information. Lead-gen does. If you were honest about what you are doing then you wouldn't have had a problem.
Thank you for not denying the voting ring, at least, Mireles.
Dude, it's called customer development. I'm going to talk to potential users of the service who voluntarily shared their contact info at the end of a survey.
Why all the weird hostility and accusations? Is crowdfunding not a thing worth exploring in your mind?
